“It’s Destiny,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, February 7, 2010
No team ever meant so much to a city. No city ever needed it more.
I won’t try to hide my conflict of interest. I grew up in New Orleans - like all Saints fans, a long-suffering Saints fan. It was a character-building experience and not always the [...]

“Who Dat in the Super Bowl,” Ellis Henican Column, amNew York, February 5, 2010
You think it’s tough being a Mets fan?
Try rooting for a team where you have to wear a paper bag over your head. Things once got so desperate for us Saints fans, anonymous suffocation seemed like an reasonable alternative.
I grew up in [...]

“Listen to What I Say,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 30, 2010
This whole fiscal responsibility thing can get a little dicey. Sometimes people actually hold you to what you say.
Just ask Peter Schmitt.
The new presiding officer of the Nassau Legislature, who swept in with County Executive Edward Mangano in November’s anti-incumbent wave, is a [...]

“Leno’s Last Laugh, “Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 17, 2010
Leno’s a flop at 10. Conan’s an “astounding failure” at 11:35. Jimmy Kimmel’s the rudest guest in the history of late-night TV.
Is it comedy? Is it drama? It’s a whole new form of late-night train wreck where all the engineers are over-coddled and overpaid. And NBC [...]

“The Coming Refugee Debate,” Ellis Henican Column, amNewYork, January 14, 2010
Get ready, Eastern Parkway. You too, Cambria Heights.
Fire up the griot pot. The Haitians are coming to New York.
As sure as Port-au-Prince is now in shambles, a huge new wave of Haitian refugees will soon be heading north.
And controversy almost certainly will greet them.
This has [...]

“No Rest fo Weary News,” Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, January 3, 2010 The news must be getting awfully tired. It never goes to sleep anymore. The endless drama over health care. The botched terror attack over Michigan. The daily life-or-death tug-of-war over Barack Obama. Party change in Nassau. Agent slaughter in Afghanistan. [...]